Breaking Ground

WEDNESDAY

exhaustion

getting the room arranged

lots of fiddly bits

planning

moving stuff about

taking stuff home

More burning sugar today – yesterday's batch has turned itself back into a thick, sticky, dripping syrup.

Behind the sugar store, fairies cling to the wall amongst the cobwebs.

CHIPPER TUESDAY

Things beginning to fall into place.

Grass is up, wallflowers up. Boards on the wall. Pebbles stuck and progressing over the floor – a track along the South Coast…

The eggs to attend to, drawings to do.

Time for the mushroom?

MURKY MONDAY

Heavy rain all day – in all day – the roof started dripping.

The ladder was found – ladder relief. Got the blank wallpaper up. Things are looking up.

I left the project space with a smell of burning sugar in the air today – but don't worry – it was all part of the plan. Following on from Under Ground at Hastings, I'm still experimenting with sugar, paper, wax and pollen – today it was sugar.

I left the first of my sticky sugar papers hanging alongside my Store. I made a sticky spun sugar drawing – though in the damp atmosphere of the Store room, it will have dissolved and changed by morning. More tomorrow.